I feel that the other ships "wake" when SCing around is a bit... placeholder-y...
I think somehow that the rainbow-shuttlecock in space just looks a little twee, and slightly "solid" somehow. Maybe there are pseudo-scientific reasons for the effect, but I feel that something more along the lines of the heat blur coming from thrusters (although a stronger effect, with a smaller point of light at the tip, rather than the current blue-green star) would me much more subtle and fit into the aesthetic in general.
Also - planet popup while in SC. The transition between a "point of light" to a spherical planet can be a bit obvious, depending on the size of the planet. Quite often it'll fade in at a size which is much larger than the point of light, ruining the sense of a seamless solar system. Somehow having the point of light scale up in size and down in brightness smoothly would make for a more immersive experience, IMHO.
I think somehow that the rainbow-shuttlecock in space just looks a little twee, and slightly "solid" somehow. Maybe there are pseudo-scientific reasons for the effect, but I feel that something more along the lines of the heat blur coming from thrusters (although a stronger effect, with a smaller point of light at the tip, rather than the current blue-green star) would me much more subtle and fit into the aesthetic in general.
Also - planet popup while in SC. The transition between a "point of light" to a spherical planet can be a bit obvious, depending on the size of the planet. Quite often it'll fade in at a size which is much larger than the point of light, ruining the sense of a seamless solar system. Somehow having the point of light scale up in size and down in brightness smoothly would make for a more immersive experience, IMHO.